Welcome to the website for the St. Louis Chapter of The Financial Executives Networking Group ("The FENG").

Our organization provides senior financial executives with an easy way to network exclusively with other senior financial executives and to share workplace challenges, transition experiences and job leads. The group began in 1991 with a few friends who met regularly in a library. Over time, that FENG "circle of friends" has grown to over 40,000 members.

Please join us for an Economic Update presented by a Senior Economic Research Professional from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The speaker will give us his insight and a current update of the economy as viewed by the Federal Reserve Bank. This should be an interesting presentation considering the current movements in the Commodity and Stock Markets as well as the general economic market condition.

About the Speaker:

Kevin L. Kliesen is a Business Economist and Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In his position as a business economist, he analyzes current U.S. macroeconomic and financial market developments and trends for the Bank president and staff economists prior to each Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Another important aspect of this position involves speaking to the general public and professional groups about U.S. and Eighth District economic developments. He has written and published extensively and was instrumental in the development of the St. Louis Fed’s Financial Stress Index, the St. Louis Fed’s Price Pressures Measure, and the St. Louis Fed’s Economic News Index. In addition to his responsibilities at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, he taught part-time for the Department of Economics at Washington University from 2006 to 2013. Professionally, he is a member of the American Economic Association, the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and the Association of Christian Economists. In 2011 he was named a Fellow of the national NABE organization, which is the association's highest honor it bestows on its members. In October 2015, he was designated as a Certified Business Economist by the NABE.